With Windows 7 nearing its end of extended support, Microsoft has seemingly begun retiring some services for the OS. The updating of metadata is now unsupported in Windows Media Player in Windows 7.

Microsoft continues to beat the Windows 10 drum, but many holdouts are still refusing to dance. Windows 10 has only recently surpassed Windows 7's marketshare, nearly 4 years into its life cycle.

Want to turn your PC into a digital video recorder and media center box? For more than a decade Microsoft has made that by offering Windows Media Center. But when Windows 10 ships in the summer of ...

A former Microsoft staffer has posted bits of the old and long-dead Windows Media Center on code repository GitHub. It could help developers improve their own apps but won't do anything to revive the ...

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m a big fan of the Windows Media Center software that comes baked into most versions of Vista and Windows 7. Specifically, I use it in conjunction with a TV tuner ...

Microsoft notes in a support document spotted by Windows Latest that users soon won't be able to view the title, genre, and artist for songs in the apps, and the apps will stop showing actors, cover ...

The Windows Media Center wasn't exactly the most popular feature among Windows users, but many still mourned its death when Microsoft announced it wouldn't be keeping the feature around for Windows 10 ...